A Crisis of Innocence

Browse Items (67 total)

Crime Does Not Pay #63, pg. 24.jpg
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes a letter from someone serving time in a juvenile correctional facility.

Crime and Punishment #22, pg. 48.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes a letter from a member of a boys' club.

Crime and Punishment #18, pg. 33.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from a high school student and a junior police officer.

Crime and Punishment #15, pg. 39.jpg
Published letters to the editor. Includes letters from young and old fans.

Crime and Punishment #6, pg. 44.jpg
Published letters to the editor with short responses. Includes letters from a pastor and a mother.

Crime and Punishment #2, pg. 37.jpg
Reader's forum page with letters from mothers. The mothers approve that their children read Crime Does Not Pay.

Crime and Punishment #1, pg. 4.jpg
Reader's forum page with a running theme of criminals revealing that reading Crime Does Not Pay showed them the error of their ways.

Senate Subcommittee Hearings 1954.pdf
Similar to the 1943 government article "Understanding Juvenile Delinquency," this document shows the shift that took place between 1943-1954. There is a huge portion of this document dedicated to the effects of horror comics on children. Moreover,…

Abilene Reporter News February 11 1957 crop.jpg
Discusses the war on lewd comics that was taking place in the 1950's, in which people found producing or selling "lewd" comic books could be prosecuted.

Buffalo Center Tribune May 19 1955 crop.jpg
Written by a highschool senior, this editorial looks at the way that new technologies negatively influence children.
Output Formats

atom, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2